New version of Wordpress and indexing Maternity Underwear
Recently we designed a new site, Maternity Underwear and this was ready really quickly, probably our quickest site design to date. So it was rather frustrating when Google just wasn’t indexing it. Initially we thought it might be the fact that the robots.txt file had incorrectly disallowed access to everything but this was changed and still almost 1 month later the site was being indexed despite it being complete, good content and starting to be linked. Then Gary found that in the new Wordpress and option had changed. Under the Privacy settings the default now appears to be to block search engines and allow normal visitors only. We changed this and about a week later it is starting to be indexed. Hopefully given a bit more time the site will be fully indexed and start to climb and the hard work will pay off. Has anyone else noticed this option change?
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Yep, I’ve had the exact same problem myself once before. Admittedly I think it was back with the release of WordPress 2.8 but maybe it was just me. I know at the time I was really just having my eyes opened to the power of wordpress so I wasn’t a WP expert then. Since then I’ve launched a few affiliate sites using WP and customised a few themes so those days are long gone. Coincidentally, I posted yesterday on my blog about the SEO problems that are present in an out of the box installation of wordpress and how to fix them so that may be useful for your readers too. Has the indexing of the maternity site resulted in any sales yet?
Keep up the good work chaps!
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